This paper shows how different housing submarkets are linked by residential vacancy chains – the series of moves across housing units initiated by the construction of new…
The deep ties between housing and education that foster segregation, and strategies for overcoming those ties, are the focus of four new papers released today. Originally…
Fostering inclusion in gentrifying neighborhoods (rather than opening up exclusive suburbs) is the focus of four working papers released today by the Joint Center for Housing…
The design of housing voucher programs, site selection for new subsidized units, and federal, state, and local housing programs can all encourage—or hamper—efforts to create…
What would it take to meet the 1968 federal Fair Housing Act’s requirement that federal entities use their power to “affirmatively further” fair housing? …
What would it take to make new neighborhoods, and remake old ones, so that large, complex, metropolitan areas moved decisively toward racial and economic integration? What…
How do household decisions about where to live perpetuate residential segregation, and what would it take for such choices to result in more inclusive neighborhoods? Three…
Rapid and widespread gentrification in US neighborhoods in recent decades has provoked debate over its relationship to neighborhood racial and ethnic composition. Empirical…
Foreclosures disproportionately hit minority neighborhoods across the U.S. during the housing crisis. In Boston, over 80 percent of foreclosures took place in just five of…
W15-1: This study examines trajectories of foreclosed properties in areas severely impacted by the foreclosure crisis and their association with local crime and disorder…
